PAYING FOR IT

Gus Dury once had a high-flying career as a journalist and a wife headored. But now he is living on the edge, a drink away from Edinburgh'sdown-and-outs, drifting from bar to bar, trying not to sign divorcepapers. But the road takes an unexpected turn when a friend asks him toinvestigate the brutal torture and killing of his son, and Gus becomesembroiled in a much bigger story of political corruption and illegalpeople-trafficking. Seedy doss-houses, bleak wastelands and suddenviolence contrast with the cobbled streets and cool bistros of fashionableEdinburgh, as the puzzle unravels to a truly shocking ending.